Realism

-Focus on daily life rather than the large adventures
-Characters usually typical of specific social class, social and personal contemporary problems
-Appear to be objective (really? wit al dese crazy ass naratos n shi?)
-Present all sides, positive and negative, of characters
-Reproduce exterior and interior reality in order to show the life of the individual in relation to society and the environment
-Focus on psychological forces that shape person

Gen 1898
Critical of Spanish decay, acknowledgment of need for modernization and liberalization of Spain, and crisis of identity (what does it mean to be Spanish?)

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